Don't Count on Leaving Your Family Death Benefits if You're Unvaccinated

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

These days, workers who refuse to get vaccinated against covid-19 may face financial repercussions, from higher health insurance premiums to loss of their jobs. Now, the financial fallout might follow workers beyond the grave. If they die of covid and weren’t vaccinated, their families may not get death benefits they would otherwise have received.

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority no longer pays a $500,000 death benefit to the families of subway, bus and commuter rail workers who die of covid if the workers were unvaccinated at the time of death.

“It strikes me as needlessly cruel,” said Mark DeBofsky, a lawyer at DeBofsky Sherman Casciari Reynolds in Chicago who represents workers in benefit disputes.

Other employers have similar concerns about providing death or other benefits to employees who refuse to be vaccinated.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dont-count-leaving-family-death-155600045.html

[texasfiddler]

1. Insurance companies look at data and the bottom line. They can be cruel.

I don't like them, but they can force companies to do the right thing in terms of the environment and safety. They are a feedback in the capitalistic market that puts a price on safety and environmental impacts. I believe this will become more of a factor with climate change as well. As a contract engineer, some of my most rewarding projects have been funded due to the requirements of insurance companies forcing companies to do the right thing for both safety and environment to maintain the coverage. I also witnessed the canning of two coal fired power plants (back in the early 2000s) after the permits were issued, because insurance and capital wouldn't back the project. Strange bed fellows.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Oh, dear.

Decisions have consequences.

[lindysalsagal]

3. We can't afford to indulge these moronic childish tantrums

This is necessary.

[onethatcares]

4. don't most life insurance policies

have a codicil about suicide and all though it's not spelled out, going unvaxxed is a slow form of same.